Search CPAN with Google

michael michael at galton.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Dec 18 06:13:01 PST 2006


I do a site specific search through google (fx, site:search.cpan.org foo 
bar).  The advantage of doing it this way is you can simply click 
through to the advanced search form for the extra specificity (unlike 
hexten!)

--
Michael

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Tom Hukins wrote:
> This just showed up on the London.pm mailing list.  I remember us
> discussing problems with searching CPAN at some point, probably in the
> pub, so I thought I'd forward it:
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> -----
>
> To: Module Authors <module-authors at perl.org>,
>  "London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
> From: Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>
> Subject: Search CPAN with Google
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:01 +0000
>
> I've just been playing with a Google Co-op search of CPAN:
>
> http://www.hexten.net/2006/12/18/search-cpan-with-google
>
> It certainly doesn't beat search.cpan.org all the time - but for some
> queries the fact that the Google search goes deeper pays off.
>
> CPAN's big enough that the quality of the search interface is
> critical - for most people it's the primary interface. I've certainly
> had cases where the search has missed modules that I've subsequently
> discovered indirectly - mentioned on a mailing list or in someone
> else's code.
>
> I imagine it might be politically sensitive to add a Google powered
> search to search.cpan.org - but I'd certainly have found it useful in
> the past.
>
> -- 
> Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
>
>
>
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